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Huawei Technologies Ltd., one of the world's biggest makers of telecommunications equipment, said on Tuesday that its profit for 2014 grew 32.7%.

The Chinese multinational also reported a net profit of $4.5 billion. Revenue of the company rose 20.6% to $ 46.5 billion last year.

The Shenzhen-based company its sales are expected to grow by 10% for the next three to five years, as it continues to expand internationally.

In total its China sales grew 31.5% to 108.9 billion yuan, or 37.8% of its revenues. On the other hand its sales in Europe Middle east and Africa increased 35% to 101 billion yuan.

Chief Executive Ren Zhengfei in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos said that the company is looking forward to Europe for future growth.

Professor Stephen Hawking, the world-famous English physicist, has applied to trademark his name at the Intellectual Property Office.

Also, Physicist Brian Cox, professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, has applied for the trademark of his name.

A spokesman for the University of Cambridge in an interview with the Sunday Times said that the application sent by Prof. Hawking is a personal matter for professor.

He further said that it is not a university issue, but he has taken some measures to protect his name and the success it has brought to him.

A debate about whether scientists should take the risk of letting all the aliens know about human existence on Earth took place at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual conference in San Jose, California last month.

During the debate, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director at the Center for SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California said that any society that could come here to destroy the planet already knows that we exist here.

Space scientist and science-fiction writer David Brin said, "The arrogance of shouting into the cosmos without any proper risk assessment defies belief. It is a course that would put our grandchildren at risk. If we send them messages, they may come here and enslave us. Or just eat us".

China is planning to set massive solar power station in the sky by 2050. The scientists behind the vision mentioned that the solar power station would be bigger than the International Space Station (ISS) and would be built 36,000 kilometers above the ground.

The advocate for the station will be a 93-year-old academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named Wang Xiji. He is also an International Academy of Astronautics member and has devoted over 50 years to space technology research.

According to Wang, the huge solar power station is meant to solve entire energy crisis and will also save the planet from greenhouse gases and pollution.

On Monday, the Oregon Zoo euthanized a 31-year-old elephant named Rama. The zoo officials took this hard decision as Rama was in extreme pain due to an old leg injury.

Rama was treated with physical therapy techniques and anti-inflammatory medications. But the zoo officials said that none of them were proving effective to lessen the pain. In fact, no new modifications were able to improve Rama's quality of life.

In 1990, Rama suffered the leg injury when older female elephants pushed a young bull out of Portland zoo's herd, a common activity seen in the wild. In the incident, Rama fell into a moat. Zoo officials were of the view that Rama liked to paint. His art has been displayed in a Portland gallery.

A new study found that the number of United States kids gulping fast food on any given day has been declining. The study, which included data from 2003 to 2010, found that calories from some types of fast foods have also declined.

Co-author of the study, Colin D. Rehm from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, said that some previous studies had included menu item, but the new study actually considered what Children across the country are eating. While talking to Reuters Health, Rehm said, "The take-home message is that changes can be made, whether they are due to consumer preference or due to what the restaurants have done themselves. It shows that change is possible".